On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:46 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > > In the Fedora packaging guidelines we have the following section on > replacing a directory with a non-directory, and replacing a symlink with > a directory: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Directory_Replacement/#_scriptlet_to_replace_a_directory > > Recently we received a ticket asking us to revise this slightly: > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/859 > > The suggested revision to the lua code is minor and I suppose makes > sense, but I'm reluctant to touch anything at all here because the issue > is subtle. Furthermore, RPM could potentially change how it deals with > these cases; for all I know it may even do "the right thing" internally > now. > > Does the Fedora guideline match the current guidance from RPM upstream > as to how to deal with these situations? >
Unfortunately, it still does. I don't know if the RPM developers have a plan to make that obsolete, but it'd be nice if it could go away... -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Rpm-ecosystem mailing list Rpm-ecosystem@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-ecosystem